April 8, 2006 - THEY improv to perform a special long form improv with MadTV's Keegan Michael Key to benefit Hope For Vision in North Miami Beach on April 24th at 7pm.
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THEY improv joins MadTV's Keegan Michael Key in a special long form improv to benefit Hope For Vision in North Miami Beach show on Monday, April 24th at 7pm.
North Miami, FL: THEY improv, Broward County's improv troupe, will perform a special long form during the benefit
Hope For Vision, Live! at the North Miami Beach Theater of the Performing Arts at 17011 NE 19th Avenue in North Miami Beach on Monday, April 24th at 7pm.
Funds raised will be used to raise awareness of retinal degenerative diseases and to help fight for prevention and a cure.
THEY improv will be joined by Keegan Michael Key on stage for a long form performance of the Harold, the improv form that was the brain child of improv guru Del Close and popularized by the Improv Olympic theater in Chicago. The piece features a variety of connected scenes, games and organic pieces that explore a single suggestion provided by the audience. This will be one of the few times this piece has been performed in South Florida.
"Keegan Michael Key is an excellent actor trained in the Chicago traditions," said THEY improv director and former Del Close student Todd Rice. "We've been developing these skills for some time and are honored that Keegan will work with us on continuing the Chicago tradition for local audiences."
The "Illegally Blind" event will feature a variety of top-notch entertainment including MadTV's Keegan Michael Key, the Miami Heat Dancers, DJ Le Spam, The Green Room, and the Laughing Gas Improv Theatre Company.
The evening is designed to raise awareness and funds to fight blindness and features, among other things, the South Florida premier of descriptive audio services for theatrical productions and live filming of the event.
"Our '
Comedy With a Cause' program continues to raise money for charities while changing the face of comedy in South Florida," said THEY Director Todd Rice. "Participating in
Hope For Vision, Live! fits directly with what we're working on: Using entertainment to benefit the community. This evening will help change the way people see, figuratively and literally."
Hope For Vision is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of retinal degenerative and other blinding diseases, to providing information and community tools to help those coping with vision loss, and to developing the tools required to support a grassroots movement to raise urgently needed funding for scientific research.
THEY improv continues to change the face of Comedy in South Florida by joining this show. THEY improv was selected at the ImprovMiami Prizes 2005 as the Best Short Form Troupe for Broward County.
